 | William Minto - English literature - 1894 - 440 pages
...strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written." And again : " It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." This was the gist of Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction, that in the best parts of the best poems... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions." 3. " There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." The most, perhaps, that can be said in favor of these principles is that, without being absolutely... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - English literature - 1894 - 436 pages
...insists that the true antithesis is not poetry and prose, but poetry and "matter of fact or science". " There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition ". " Selection ", " made with true taste and feeling ", is all he can point out as differentiating... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 478 pages
...times) majestic diction of Laodamia. — With whatever fatuity Wordsworth may have clung to his theory ' that there neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and [of] metrical composition,' his practice, and that of all great poets, show there is a decided difference.... | |
 | Book collecting - 1919 - 858 pages
...daliberately reformed, that it must be such speech as simple men use at passionate crises of their lives, and that "there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition". We may now mark how in this instance the history of literature, that most vital part of the history... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1895 - 942 pages
...widen the space of separation between prose and metrical composition ; and Wordsworth himself wrote that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between poetry and painting, and accordingly we call them sisters... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1895 - 190 pages
...demarcation at all ? In the Preface [to the "Lyrical Ballads"] from which we have quoted we read : "' There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and accordingly we call them sisters... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 274 pages
...examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. "There neither is or can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition." s Such is Mr. YVordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative 25 and consecutive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 270 pages
...examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. "There neither is or can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition."3 Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 288 pages
...in the laureatesbip. react with ill effect upon his later work. In the Preface it had been laid down that " there neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose, and that of metrical composition ; " and, again, that the speech of low and rustic life, being "plainer,... | |
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It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. 
